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Campgrounds, caravan parks and other outdoor hospitality services have come out from a low-cost touristic accommodation to a real recreational experience. Camping offers customers the opportunity to interact with people from different countries, cultures and lifestyles who all have a common point: freedom and reconnect with nature.

Outdoor hospitality has remained a popular activity in Europe. As a result, the camping sector has changed in many aspects over the last 20 years, facing new types of customers with different expectations. Originally represented as a wilderness experience, an escape and inexpensive solution to spend holidays, camping is now evolving in different forms and levels of comfort.

This paper gives many informations about the tendency of camping in France as it is on the border of Switzerland and is one of the most famous countries in the camping sector.

This case study will present the new trend of the urban ecotourism. It is common knowledge that green tourism is trendy. The cities are now involved in this trend. A lot of cities have begun to launch initiatives to try and develop the concept of linking social demand, economic needs and environmental requirements. This article will determine if urban tourism can become sustainable and environmentally friendly. The first part will include the explanation of the concept. The second part will present some existing examples around the world and particularly in Switzerland.

Currently, the tourism industry is developing in many different ways and follows several tendencies. In this paper, further information about the international trend of hot springs in China will be given. First, the term “hot spring” is defined by a pool of hot water that has seeped through an opening in Earth’s surface. Chinese people used and use them to relax and for therapeutic reasons. Therefore hot springs were and are an important part of China. Moreover, this paper focuses on today’s Chinese and global hot spring market and its increase in revenue from 2005 until 2013 onwards. The customer segments are especially middle aged to seniors from a mid to high class level. Finally, a comparison between the spa market in China and Switzerland can be found at the end of the paper and some advice will be given in order to improve Switzerland’s hot spring popularity.

The environmental changes caused by tourists are a publicly discussed topic nowadays. Nevertheless, we still do travel in masses and therefore have a great impact on the environment. The Maldives, a growing destination, has had many issues in past years with negative environmental changes and not long ago started to implement regulations in order to diminish the growing problems, such as coral reef destruction or rise of the sea level. In comparison, Switzerland is also facing problems, but they are of a different kind. The alpine destination focuses on the nature that needs to be preserved and tries to find a solution for the melting glaciers. We wrote this paper to help the readers understand to what extent their journeys and choices of destinations have an impact upon the environment and how destinations manage the issues.

The first women-only concept was developed by a group of reformers in 1903. They decided to build a hotel exclusively for women: the Martha Washington in New York City. The reason was that business women travelling alone had a hard time finding a place to stay in which they were free from being suspected of immoral behaviour.

Nowadays, nearly half of business travellers are made up by women all around the World, and most of them travel alone. That is part of the reasons why hotels have decided to fulfil women’s needs and preferences by offering them special services.
Women enjoy the thought of hotels taking into consideration what their needs are and appreciate even the smallest of things.

Some examples:

Bella Sky Comwell Hotel in Copenhague has dedicted a whole floor of its hotel to ladies. Strictly only women have access to this floor. Only firemen would be authorized in case of fire

Women are travelling more in south east Asia, for business or leisure purpose. The Naumi Hotel wanted to offer a place they could feel home. But a mix floor is also available. The occupancy rate of women-only rooms is 80%, which proves its success, in spite of its high prices (420 to 600 $ per night)

This article provides a brief overview of what is medical tourism, and the differences between health tourism and medical tourism. It examines why people prefer to go abroad, and what are the services that allow the expansion of medical tourism.

Nowadays, winter resorts have to face an important crisis. Snow coverage is not always guaranteed and due to climate change, snow scarcity is increasing, particularly in the low-altitude resorts (Steiger, 2011). As mountain resorts have been considered, since the half of the 20th century as being a perfect location for winter sports and activities (Bourdeau, 2009), the necessity of finding a solution to rejuvenate winter resorts is very important. Mountain resorts need to reposition themselves in order to reduce the effect of snow scarcity and the decline of the actual “Skiers” (the number of people skiing is constantly decreasing).

Mountain resorts also need to readapt the offer because of the changing in customer behaviour. In facts, there is a new type of tourist that has emerged: more experienced, more independent and more aware of the quality and especially harder to satisfy his needs (Peters, Steinhauser, & Jochum, 2003).